everdingen, caesar van, 1617-1678 , four muses and pegasus on parnassus
I totally agree with John Dewey that "imagination is the chief instrument of the good and art is more moral than moralities."
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“Deep inside the town there open up, so to speak, double streets, doppelgänger streets, mendacious and delusive streets”. (from cinnamon shops by bruno schulz)
‘encounter’ painted by bruno schulz (1920)
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Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Rose von Rosthorn-Friedmann (1901)
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Giorgio de Chirico, Bathers on the beach (1934)
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An odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a female slave in an Ottoman seraglio.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque
(1814)
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Leonor Fini’s art offers a woman’s take on surrealism, by offering a female view of the female body and of erotic pleasures.
Leonor Fini, The Ungrateful Twins (1982)
March 15, 2012
Barnett Newman sees the history of art as an aesthetic struggle, between “the exaltation to be found in prefect form” on the one side, and, on the other, “the desire to destroy form, where form can be formless.”
Kasimir Malevitch, Red square on the black (1924)
March 15, 2012
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. -W.H. Auden
Otto Mueller, Dancer (1903)
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I believe that here in America, free from the weight of European culture, we are finding the answer, by completely denying that art has any concern with the problem of beauty and where to find it. -Barnett Newman
Mark Rothko, Earth and Green (1955)
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Woman with Cat - Pablo Picasso
1900
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driving on the ‘hard road’
between prairie towns,
listening to the farm report on the radio.i don’t understand much about commodities
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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from...”
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“This willingness to continually revise one’s own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education....”
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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin - Iris and Morpheus (1811)
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Prometheus. Theodore Rombouts. Flemish. 1597-1637. oil on canvas.
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